SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde.The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubb ...

After a Tu-144 crashed on a pre-delivery test flight in June 1978, Aeroflot pulled the plug on its career. It had flown only 102 commercial flights, and only 55 of those had carried passengers.

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SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde.The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubb ...

After a Tu-144 crashed on a pre-delivery test flight in June 1978, Aeroflot pulled the plug on its career. It had flown only 102 commercial flights, and only 55 of those had carried passengers.